Saying a study of the Rim of the Valley Corridor's future is months overdue and stuck in "bureaucratic limbo," three local members of Congress are urging the National Park Service to release the report.
Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), Judy Chu (D-...

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In a letter sent yesterday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), along with Reps. Judy Chu (D-Pasadena) and Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), urged the National Park Service to release the Rim of the Valley Corridor Special Resource Study draft, stating the report was...

Anthony Ng was in high school when he realized he didn’t have permission to live in the United States. The summer internship he had landed in Washington, D.C., required participants to submit Social Security numbers. Ng didn’t have one.
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A large crowd of pro-immigrant activists and politicians gathered Tuesday outside L.A. City Hall to send a message to the Texas judge who one day earlier ordered a stop to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
“Shame on you!” the protesters shouted in unison. “Shame on you!”
The group, which included U.S. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), vowed to fight federal Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction, which freezes a...

A proposal to lay high-speed rail tracks through California's Angeles National Forest brought thousands of opponents to a rally Tuesday night in the eastern San Fernando Valley.
An estimated 2,000 people, mostly from communities along the preserve's southwestern boundary, packed All Nations Church on Foothill Boulevard in Lake View Terrace.
"The alternatives are so poorly done they are unacceptable," said David DePinto, an organizer of the rally and a board member for the Shadow Hills Property...

A proposal to lay high-speed rail tracks through California's Angeles National Forest -- originating in Burbank -- brought thousands of opponents to a rally Tuesday night in the eastern San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles Times reported.
An estimated 2,000 people, mostly from communities along the preserve's southwestern boundary, packed All Nations Church on Foothill Boulevard in Lake View Terrace.
"The alternatives are so poorly done they are unacceptable," said David DePinto, an organizer of the...

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Lawmakers and members of the Armenian American community gathered in Washington on Tuesday to mark the weeklong display of a historic rug linked to the Armenian genocide, calling it significant for a nation that helped support Armenians during some of their darkest chapters.
The Ghazir rug, also known as the Armenian Orphan Rug, went on display at the White House Visitor Center after years of campaigning from Armenian American groups and senators representing Armenian communities throughout the United...

The environmentalists and other activists who had advocated for protecting the San Gabriel Mountains were shocked this month when President Obama created a national monument that was significantly smaller than they had expected and that excluded heavily used areas of the forest north of Los Angeles and Pasadena. Their surprise was understandable. In the weeks leading up to the president's announcement, a key argument for creating the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument was that the status would...

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein threatened Monday to ask President Obama to create two national monuments in the Mojave Desert, without approval of Congress, if lawmakers again fail to pass legislation protecting the land.
Feinstein said Monday she wants to break a logjam of interests that stalled two previous bills to create the two protected zones, the largest of which is Mojave Trails National Monument on 921,000 acres of federal land and former railroad company property along a 105-mile stretch of old...